The rules you're using here do nothing. Don't you have any
layer 2 problem between your internal hosts and the gateway?
Try a simple ping and see what rtt you get and/or if there
is any packet loss.

Ramin

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:41:09PM -0500, Karina G?mez Salgado wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     I'm trying to setting up a Linux Computer as my LAN gateway to
> Internet. Later, i will use this computer like a squid-proxy, but by
> now, it should only forward packets in and out of my LAN without
> masquerading (i will use my class C segment), and that's it.
> 
> I took the rc.firewalls rules as a base for create gateway and it works,
> 
> but even if i only have one computer connected to the gateway the
> internet access is a little slow . The internet access in the linux pc
> is fast but in the other one(s) connected is not that fast, when i try
> to check a web page it takes a moment to process and later when it
> displays the website, and the images can take long time to show.
> 
> The rules i'm using are these:
> --------------------------------
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> echo -e "\n Loading Firewalling Rules \n"
> 
> IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables
> UNIVERSE="0.0.0.0/0"
> 
> INTIF="eth1"
> EXTIF="eth0"
> 
> echo " Enabling forwarding.. "
> 
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> echo " Clearing existing rules... "
> 
> $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP
> $IPTABLES -F INPUT
> $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
> $IPTABLES -F OUTPUT
> $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP
> $IPTABLES -F FORWARD
> $IPTABLES -F -t nat
> $IPTABLES -X
> $IPTABLES -Z
> 
> 
> $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $UNIVERSE -d $UNIVERSE -j ACCEPT -v
> 
> $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -s $UNIVERSE -d $UNIVERSE -j ACCEPT -v
> 
> $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF -j ACCEPT -v
> 
> $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $INTIF -o $EXTIF -j ACCEPT -v
> 
> 
> This settings are enough ? Do i need somethig more ?
> 
> I'll appreciate a lot any help,
> 
> 
> Karina
> 
> 
> 

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